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Bloomberg’s Kate Lee on Regulatory Data as an Operating Layer for Compliance and Reporting

Regulatory data has become a firmly established part of the control architecture of capital markets firms. As transparency rules diverge across the jurisdictions, liquidity monitoring becomes more granular, and supervisors demand stronger evidence of how figures are derived, firms are obligated to treat regulatory datasets as governed, versioned and explainable operating assets. In this Q&A...

 

 

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Recorded Webinar: From 24/7 to Event-Driven: Engineering the Next-Generation Exchange Platform

What digital asset and prediction markets are teaching traditional exchanges about availability, agility and time-to-market. New market structures and regulatory changes are forcing exchange operators to rethink the foundations of their technology stacks. Digital asset exchanges, prediction markets and retail-driven platforms have normalised 24/7 trading, continuous availability and rapid product iteration. In contrast, many traditional…

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ExchangeTech Summit London

A-Team Group, organisers of the TradingTech Summits, are pleased to announce the inaugural ExchangeTech Summit London on May 14th 2026. This dedicated forum brings together operators of exchanges, alternative execution venues and digital asset platforms with the ecosystem of vendors driving the future of matching engines, surveillance and market access.

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Regulatory Data Handbook 2025 – Thirteenth Edition

Welcome to the thirteenth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook, a unique and practical guide to capital markets regulation, regulatory change, and the data and data management requirements of compliance across Europe, the UK, US and Asia-Pacific. This year’s edition lands at a moment of accelerating regulatory divergence and intensifying data focused supervision. Inside,…

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Bloomberg’s Kate Lee on Regulatory Data as an Operating Layer for Compliance and Reporting

Regulatory data has become a firmly established part of the control architecture of capital markets firms. As transparency rules diverge across the jurisdictions, liquidity monitoring becomes more granular, and supervisors demand stronger evidence of how figures are derived, firms are obligated to treat regulatory datasets as governed, versioned and explainable operating assets. In this Q&A...

Alternative Data Grows Up: ADC London 2026 Turns to Operational Reality

For most of the past decade, alternative data conferences have asked the same underlying question in slightly different language: does this stuff actually produce alpha? The answer, settled some time ago for institutional buyers willing to do the work, has shifted the conversation. The questions on the agenda for the London edition of the Eagle...

AI Agents are Rewriting the Future of Banking Data, Says Smartstream

Intelligent semi-autonomous AI agents promise a powerful solution to many challenges with the financial space. But their need for good-quality data is also highlighting the shortcomings that remain within some institutions’ data architectures. This apparent chicken-and-egg situation is one that Thomas Steinborn, chief product and technology officer at Smartstream, believes can only be resolved by...

Inside Bloomberg’s ASKB Roadmap: the Data Moat Behind the AI

When Bloomberg unveiled its 2026 roadmap for ASKB on 16 April, the headline framing was the evolution of the conversational AI interface – now in beta – from a discovery tool into “a deeply integrated engine for institutional intelligence.” Beneath that framing sits a substantial set of integrations: ASKB will work directly with Portfolio &...

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The Future of the Buy-Side Trading Desk

The buy-side trading desk of the future is asset-agnostic and AI-augmented. The defining characteristic is an architecture where clean, joined-up workflows across all products allow an agentic overlay to function reliably. For investment firms, the priority is to establish these common foundational layers now; firms that remain trapped in siloed, asset-specific stacks will find that...

Reclaiming Value in a Shifting Legal Landscape: The 2025 Top 100 Settlements Analysis

While 2025 saw its challenges, the year ended on a high for securities litigation in the US marketplace, raising the prospect of an expanded rebound in 2026. The latter part of the year saw four settlements that exceeded $200million in value in addition to a single, significant settlement reaching $740million, providing a late-year boost to...

Electronic Communications Monitoring: Leveraging AI for More Effective Surveillance

The proliferation of electronic communications channels available to financial professionals and their clients has created a headache for compliance teams charged with mitigating against market abuse, insider trading and other illegal activities. In an era of heighted regulatory scrutiny, compliance teams are finding it challenging to put in place the appropriate systems and processes, particularly...

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A-Team Innovation Awards

We are thrilled to unveil the winners of the 2026 A-Team Innovation Awards. These awards celebrate successful projects within financial institutions (both with vendor support and without) across the financial enterprise.

RegTech Insight Awards Europe

Voting in the 6th annual RegTech Insight Awards Europe 2026 is now closed. These awards recognise excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets and focus on vendors providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology, and data solutions.

TradingTech Insight Awards USA

Voting in the 8th annual TradingTech Insight Awards USA is now closed. These awards recognise excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets and focus on vendors providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology, and data solutions.

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